stackyFACTSWhen you play the chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise, a standard earth burial is frankly insulting.
When you play the chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise, a standard earth burial is frankly insulting. Doohan's final wish was to go to space, but official rockets kept failing to keep his ashes in orbit. In 2008, wealthy space tourist Richard Garriott successfully smuggled a laminated picture of Doohan covered in his ashes onto the ISS, hiding it beneath the floorboards of the Columbus module. Scotty finally got beamed up permanently.
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